Mel Green
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About me
I practice integrative therapy; I work with adults and young people aged 15 and over. I offer face-to-face therapy in Bristol and see clients online.
I am a compassionate and experienced human and therapist. I help clients understand their relationship to themselves, others, and the world and to change, develop, and progress in their lives. In my work with clients, I offer alternative ways of interacting with anxiety and depression that support people in understanding and accepting themselves.
Therapy can be a place to come to during distress and despair. It can also be a much-needed space to explore and unpack past experiences, helping change and development become possible.
Therapy with me.
What is integrative therapy?
As an integrative therapist, I trained in psychodynamic, person-centred, existential phenomenology, and embodied psychotherapy. I see great value in my integrative training, as it enables me to use my expertise and skills to develop distinctive and bespoke therapy for each client I meet. Each therapy is as unique as the person in front of me.
My commitment to and engagement with the ethical standards set by the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and the United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy, which I am a member, underpin my therapy practice.
What to expect in therapy.
In therapy with me, you can expect to talk about and express your thoughts, feelings, and bodily responses and sensations. How you talk about your life and at what pace you do this is up to you. I will listen to you carefully and be curious with you. I will offer my view on the experiences you share.
I will ask you about the entirety of your life; this may or may not happen in chronological order, depending on what you are coming to therapy for and about.
We will explore your childhood experience constructively. I invite you to think and talk about your childhood and the relationships you had as a child and young person. Are these people still in your life, and how have these relationships changed? Reflecting on early life experiences can help contextualise your current sense of yourself and others.
I will ask about overwhelming or unsafe experiences in your life as a child, young person and adult. Have you had grief, losses, or shocks, and how have you lived with these experiences? What is living every day like for you? What is pleasurable, uncomfortable or painful, and what do you engage in or avoid?
I will work with you in an embodied way. I will ask you simple questions about how you experience bodily sensations. This is very helpful when working with any trauma.
Therapy with me is not a linear process; how we work together will develop and change over time. I will focus on building a solid and trusting relationship with you, which is critical to successful therapy.
My practice has a philosophical component that explores how we make meaning and purpose in our lives, acknowledging the struggles and joy this can create.
Training, qualifications & experience
Psychotherapy Experience
I trained to be a Psychotherapist at The Minster Centre in London, a pioneering and well-respected institution. Alongside my private therapy practice, I have worked as a therapist for independent charities and an NHS service at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust London. I have experience in delivering effective short, medium and long-term therapeutic work.
I have a current enhanced DBS certificate (Disclosure and Barring service)
Health Practitioner Experience
I am an experienced registered nurse and health visitor and, as such, have vast experience working with all age groups with both short and long-term physical and mental health needs. I specialised in mental health for parents of young children.
I have worked extensively with older adolescents who have emotional difficulties(15 years of age and above)
Special Interests and experience
I work with clients with a wide range of experiences and concerns; some of the specialities I work with are:
- Parental emotional wellbeing
- Family relationships
- Adverse childhood experiences
- Anxiety and depression
- Bereavements and loss of all kinds
- Exploration of sexuality
- Exploration of gender
- Death and Dying
- Disability
- Consensual Sex and relationships of all kinds
Trauma Informed Care
I work in a trauma-informed way, which means I am aware of the ways trauma can impact our holistic health. In counselling sessions, I will remain curious about how you feel in your body and mind.
GSRD therapy (gender, sexual and relationship diversity)
I am an affirmative therapist to diverse experiences of gender, sexuality, and relationship styles.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
life- limiting conditions
changes in health status
Therapies offered
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Fees
£70.00 per session
Additional information
Contact information
07944 690569 call or text message welcome. If I am unable to answer your call, please leave a message and I will respond by the end of the day.
I want you to find the right therapist for you, when you contact me, I will get back to you within 48 hours (weekdays) We will schedule a phone call so that I can get an understanding of what you need from counselling, and agree a time to meet for an assessment session.
When I work
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Further information
Practicalities and Fees
Your counselling sessions will be weekly at the same time and last for 50 minutes. Payment for each session is within 1 week of your therapy session and payable by bank transfer.
Once we decide to work together, I will share with you my counselling contract that details my data storage arrangements, confidentiality agreement and cancellation and holiday policy.
